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Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
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  • Favorite Things: Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative
    The third installment in our between-seasons miniseries, "a few of my favorite things," chosen by host John Biewen -- selections from exceptional podcast series. From producer Jess Shane and Radiotopia Presents, this is Episode 1 of "Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative," an innovative exploration of the process and the ethics of narrative documentary storytelling.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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  • Favorite Things: The Copernic Affair
    The second in a between-seasons miniseries, "a few of my favorite things," chosen by host John Biewen: Episode 1 of The Copernic Affair, from the Canadaland network. The series tells the story of a sociology professor living near Ottawa who finds himself accused of a decades-old bombing attack against a synagogue in Paris. Did Hassan Diab do it? By reporters Dana Ballout and Alex Atack.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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  • Favorite Things: Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas
    The first of a between-seasons miniseries, "a few of my favorite things," chosen by host John Biewen. From Slow Burn, episode 1 of "Becoming Justice Thomas," an exploration, by journalist Joel Anderson, of how Clarence Thomas, a poor Black kid from a tiny town in Georgia, became ... Clarence Thomas. Episode 1 is called, "America's Blackest Child." Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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  • The New Old Racism: Keeping ScOR#4
    Host John Biewen teases Season 8 and reads an installment from his new newsletter, Keeping ScOR. Eight years after our "Seeing White" series, whiteness is still a helluva drug -- and a powerful tool for Trump 2.0. Music by goodnight, Lucas Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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  • Bonus: Michael Kliën and the Body Politic
    Michael Kliën wants to help bring about profound change in the world, but not through the usual means. An Austrian-born Dance professor at Duke University, Kliën is a leading social choreographer. He sets up experiments involving people moving amongst each other -- wordlessly -- in pursuit of new ways of being and the "soul democratic." By Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen. Music by goodnight, Lucas and Blue Dot Sessions. Scene on Radio is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Links:Michael Klien’s websiteVideo of Kliën works: ParliamentConstitutionThe Utopians Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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About Scene on Radio

Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Our latest is Season 7, Scene on Radio: Capitalism.  Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; MEN (Season 3), on patriarchy and its history; The Land That Never Has Been Yet (Season 4), exploring democracy in the U.S. and why we don’t have more of it; The Repair (Season 5), on the cultural roots of the climate crisis; and Season 6, Echoes of a Coup, the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history, in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898. Produced and hosted by John Biewen, with collaborators, Scene on Radio comes from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. The show is distributed by PRX.
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